Monday, 17 August 2015

Article - Transformational Teaching in Dance - Julianna Gaillard Hane

Our society is now experiencing the affects of information overload.
Notifications and blinking lights bombard us 24/7. Anyone with a smart
phone can find out just about anything they could ever want to know via
the Internet.If our students can access information anytime, then why even have school? What does a teacher offer that no other system can?
The answer is meaning or purpose (Rosebrough and Leverett, 2011).
Only a teacher can show students how to think for themselves and use
information for a greater purpose. Only mentorship can inspire meaning
in life.
Mentorship contains a very important ingredient that no form of technology will ever reach – the human element.
The education process is not a dumping of information into an empty
vessel, but the nurturing of transformation, as in peeling away the
layers of an onion to reach its core. This process is also known as transformational teaching.